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Re: Misleading Debian's installer choice



On Tue, 29 Jun 2010 23:20:20 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote:

> Camaleón wrote:

>> It depends. There are many situations and setups where having a
>> separate disk and/or partition is a very good choice (speed or
>> security/redundancy gains).
>>   
> Sure, but I did not want to say that using different partitions is not a
> good idea (I always use different partitions). I simply wanted to speak
> about the `/' and its hierarchy problem that I mentioned before. :)

(...)

Ah, you were looking for an explanation on why it is so. I think this 
will help :-)

***
Root directory
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root_directory
***

Look, as the article says, we have another "conceptual collision": root 
being "/" and "/root" being "/root" :-P

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón


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